The Transportation Engineering Division is charged with ensuring the safe, efficient and balanced movement of people and goods through the permitting, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the City's transportation infrastructure. A critical part of this mission is the ensuring of vehicle and pedestrian traffic safety. Over the past three years, the Division has been placing a special emphasis on the continuing efforts of data gathering; engineering analysis, coordinated responses with law enforcement, community stake holders, neighboring jurisdictions and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), and providing engineering solutions, all with the goal of improving traffic safety.

To this end, the Division has enlisted the engineering assistance of Mr. Cesar Leirias, a graduate student in Civil Engineering, for the past three years. For the past year he has worked on a one-year employment contract with the City. Mr. Leirias' specific experience in Traffic Engineering and in Statistics has been very valuable in assisting the Division in its ongoing efforts with regard to traffic safety analysis and improvements. The Division seeks to enter into another One Year Employment Agreement, with Mr. Leirias, to continue the much-needed analysis and improvements in the area of traffic safety. Mr. Leirias is currently a contract employee.